"The Neglected Political Economy of Eminent Domain," 105 Michigan Law Review 101 (2006).

"Unsubsidizing Suburbia," 90 Minnesota Law Review 459 (2005).

Bio

Nicole Stelle Garnett joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1999, and is currently serving as a faculty fellow in the Provost’s Office. She received her B.A. from Stanford in 1992, when she graduated with honors and distinction in political science and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995.

Prof. Garnett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1995-1996) and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court (1998-1999). Prof. Garnett also worked for two years (1996-98) as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C. At the Institute for Justice, she participated in the legal defense of the groundbreaking school choice programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee.

Prof. Garnett’s primary research interests include property and land use law and education reform. From January through June 2007, Professor Garnett was a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.

The Neglected Political Economy of Eminent Domain, 105 Michigan Law Review 101 (2006)

Bio

Nicole Stelle Garnett’s teaching and research focus on property, land use, urban development, local government law, and education policy. She is the author of numerous articles on these subjects and of Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009).

Her most recent book, Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America, represents the culmination of a major empirical research project with Prof. Margaret "Peg" Brinig of Notre Dame Law School. Their work examines the effects of Catholic school closures on urban neighborhoods.

At Notre Dame, Prof. Garnett is also a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Senior Policy Advisor for the Institute's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE). From 2008 to 2010, she served as Provost Fellow at Notre Dame and, during the spring of 2007, as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Garnett received her B.A. from Stanford in 1992, where she graduated with honors and distinction in political science. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995. Following graduation from law school, Professor Garnett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1995-1996) and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court (1998-1999). Before joining the law school in 1999, she worked for two years (1996-98) as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C.